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From: r4@cbnews.att.com (richard.r.grady..jr)
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Subject: Re: NNX-0000
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Date: 18 Jul 89 20:35:05 GMT
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In article <telecom-v09i0234m02@vector.dallas.tx.us> Kent Borg <lloyd!kent@husc
6.harvard.edu> writes:
=I recently noticed that the pizza place across from my laundromat has
=a phone number which ends with 4 zeros.
=
=I don't think I have seen this before.  In fact, I remember as a kid
=(I was a strange kid) thinking that those numbers would probably be
=reserved for phoning the exchange itself, but I never remember seeing
=0000--at least until yesterday.
=
=Why are NNX-0000 (I hope I have the N's and X's straight) numbers so
=rare?

NNX-0000 numbers are not unusual in my area:
     Lawrence MA   (508)-68X-
     Salem NH      (603)-89[0348]-
These offices are ESS.
Some are assigned to businesses, some to private residences.
The numbers seem to exist here at about the proper frequency (1/10000).

Dick Grady               r4@mvuxd.att.com          ...!att!mvuxd!r4